Part 5 - Pushing to GitHub [Git-ing Started with Git Series]

Now that we know how to make commits, its time to push those somewhere safe and practical. GitHub is basically a developers best friend and can safely store all of our git repos. It also is a great way to share code.

GitHub.com is a social network for developers. It not only allows us to share code, but we can follow each others repos for updates, submit updates ourselves, download each others code and so much more. Every developer needs a GitHub account so you might as well start today.

Free accounts are good for most people. Paid accounts are only if you plan to store private repositories online. They are $7 a month and get unlimited repos. Its a pretty good deal.

To push our code to github we must first learn the “git remote add” functionality. This adds a url in our project config file. It is only for this one file, so you will need to set URLs for every project. Once we add the remote URL and name it (in this case, origin) then we can push it.

The first time we push we will use the -u command to save it as our new default push settings. In the future you might have multiple branches and multiple URLs saved in a project folder, so setting GitHub as your default push is a good idea. You don’t want to accidentally push to production.

Coming Up:
We clone (copy) and fork projects from github to our computer.

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Add a New Repo URL to our Project
git remote add origin url.com

Push the Repo to GitHub
git push -u origin master

After the First Push, We can Push Default:
git push

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